A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Recent advances in PM6: Y6-based organic solar cells

Q Guo, Q Guo, Y Geng, A Tang, M Zhang… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The last two years have witnessed rapid progress in organic solar cells (OSCs), driven by
the newly-developed nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) Y6, which contains an electron-deficient …

16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend

T Liu, T Yang, R Ma, L Zhan, Z Luo, G Zhang, Y Li… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
There is an urgent demand for all-polymer organic solar cells (AP-OSCs) to gain higher
efficiency. Here, we successfully improve the performance to 16.09% by introducing a small …

The performance-stability conundrum of BTP-based organic solar cells

Y Qin, N Balar, Z Peng, A Gadisa, I Angunawela… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
As the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic has been dramatically improved
to over 18%, achieving long-term stability is now crucial for applications of this promising …

Smart ternary strategy in promoting the performance of polymer solar cells based on bulk‐heterojunction or layer‐by‐layer structure

W Xu, X Ma, JH Son, SY Jeong, L Niu, C Xu, S Zhang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although the rapid development of polymer solar cells (PSCs) has been achieved, it is still a
great challenge to explore efficient ways for improving power conversion efficiency (PCE) of …

Thermoplastic elastomer tunes phase structure and promotes stretchability of high‐efficiency organic solar cells

Z Peng, K Xian, Y Cui, Q Qi, J Liu, Y Xu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐performance organic solar cells (OSCs) consisting of conjugated polymer donors and
nonfullerene small molecule acceptors (NF‐SMAs) deliver rapid increases in efficiencies …

A materials physics perspective on structure–processing–function relations in blends of organic semiconductors

Z Peng, N Stingelin, H Ade, JJ Michels - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
During the past 30 years of research in organic electronics, the development of mechanistic
understanding of important structure–processing–performance interrelationships has been …

Improving the Performance of Layer‐by‐Layer Processed Organic Solar Cells via Introducing a Wide‐Bandgap Dopant into the Upper Acceptor Layer

Q Chen, H Huang, D Hu, C Zhang, X Xu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The layer‐by‐layer (LbL) solution‐processed organic solar cells (OSCs) are conductive to
achieve vertical phase separation, tunable donor–acceptor (D/A) interfaces, and favorable …

Green-solvent processed blade-coating organic solar cells with an efficiency approaching 19% enabled by alkyl-tailored acceptors

H Bai, R Ma, W Su, TAD Peña, T Li, L Tang, J Yang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Power-conversion-efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) in laboratory,
normally processed by spin-coating technology with toxic halogenated solvents, have …

Thermodynamic properties and molecular packing explain performance and processing procedures of three D18: NFA organic solar cells

Z Wang, Z Peng, Z Xiao, D Seyitliyev… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on D18: Y6 have recently exhibited a record power
conversion efficiency of over 18%. The initial work is extended and the device performance …